This is kind of a weird request. For some reason whoever owns safeandbuy.com has pointed their domain at my IP address. The reason it's a problem is that I'm having all kinds of crawlers that are trying to crawl my site with that domain name.

I am having the same issue. In fact when I look up the domain of the other guy, dnsdo2.com it seems he has his A record set to my IP. dnswatch.info/dns/… I already wrote to the registrar but they are out of China and I am not sure they will do anything about it. I also do not want all of the crawlers trying to crawl with that domain. Some additional info: Initially, my server admin set me up with 4 name servers ns1, ns2, ns1.name.domain, ns2.name.domain which was assigned to two sets of IP's (one of which was to the
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Ubuntu UserMar 12 '11 at 5:29

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Some SEO scammers will point their domain at your site, and use your content to get their domain into the search engines. After a while, they will point their domain back at their own scam site, and will reap the visit traffic they get via the search queries.
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Stefan LasiewskiMar 14 '11 at 4:04

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You could set up a virtualhost on your webserver for safeandbuy.com to grab all that traffic, and just have an index page that says "I am not safeandbuy.com". That would at least pull the hits out of your actual domain.

The whois information for safeandbuy.com has a contact phone number, address and email. You could try to contact them and let them know they are pointing to the wrong IP.

By doing this, the person who has his domain pointed to yours .. once someone gets there and clicks on a link, it will redirect them to use your links so they only can steal the home page link and nothing else).

Unfortunately there is no way to stop these kind of people. but all you can do is do a redirect back to your links from his domain.

Another permanent fix to this pesky problem.

It depends on what server program you are using, but for, apache2
has its virtual host settings in the '/etc/apache2/site-enabled'
directory. Basically, it has a default virtual hosts ('000-default')
and this is set for the mydomain.com site for now. Thus,
here is my approach.

Copy the current 000-default to 010-somename. (Please be
careful, 000-default is usually symbolic link file so you have to copy
it from ../site-available/default.)

Set the virtual host setting in 010-somename. Add these two
lines below the first line

Make 000-default points to other directory (elsewhere). In
'000-default' file, change 'DocumentRoot /var/www' to point other
location like 'DocumentRoot /var/www-test'. The directory
/var/www-test don't need to exists, If it is not exists, the
connections using other domain name will get error.

000-default is an ubuntuism and does not hold true for all distros. Other than that it's good advice.
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Zypher♦Apr 6 '11 at 3:02

Correct. This is for Ubuntu. For Cent/OS and other software the 000-default may be something else. However, if you are using Apache2, the approach will be the same using a different convention. This solved my problem permanently.
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Ubuntu UserApr 6 '11 at 3:13